netdev - [PATCH] net/fsl: quieten expected MDIO access failures

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Message-Id: <20200924145645.1789724-1-jamie@nuviainc.com>
Date:   Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:56:45 +0100
From:   Jamie Iles <jamie@...iainc.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jamie Iles <jamie@...iainc.com>,
        Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] net/fsl: quieten expected MDIO access failures

MDIO reads can happen during PHY probing, and printing an error with
dev_err can result in a large number of error messages during device
probe.  On a platform with a serial console this can result in
excessively long boot times in a way that looks like an infinite loop
when multiple busses are present.  Since 0f183fd151c (net/fsl: enable
extended scanning in xgmac_mdio) we perform more scanning so there are
potentially more failures.

Reduce the logging level to dev_dbg which is consistent with the
Freescale enetc driver.

Cc: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@...iainc.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/xgmac_mdio.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/xgmac_mdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/xgmac_mdio.c
index 98be51d8b08c..bfa2826c5545 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/xgmac_mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/xgmac_mdio.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static int xgmac_mdio_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int phy_id, int regnum)
 	/* Return all Fs if nothing was there */
 	if ((xgmac_read32(&regs->mdio_stat, endian) & MDIO_STAT_RD_ER) &&
 	    !priv->has_a011043) {
-		dev_err(&bus->dev,
+		dev_dbg(&bus->dev,
 			"Error while reading PHY%d reg at %d.%hhu\n",
 			phy_id, dev_addr, regnum);
 		return 0xffff;
-- 
2.25.1